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Rolling Stone Is Coming To The iPad After All

5:40PM November 29, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

In a rather unexpected about-face, Rolling Stone’s parent company, Wenner Media, has announced that the iconic music magazine will soon be available on the iPad. But first, it’s porting The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide to Apple’s tablet — like this week. More »

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Steve Jobs, As Remembered By His First Girlfriend

4:00AM October 17, 2011 | Casey Chan

Rolling Stone has a great cover story on Steve Jobs that included an essay from Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’s first girlfriend and the mother of Lisa. It reveals a side of Jobs before Apple — the Bob Dylan-loving romantic poet madly in love. More »

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Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner Not A Fan Of iPad Magazines

2:20AM June 1, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Once upon a time, Jann Wenner started a little music magazine called Rolling Stone. When the internet arrived, he shrugged his shoulders and tossed up a half-baked website. Now, with tablets on the rise, he’s downright disinterested in digital magazines. More »

Zinio’s Interactive Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs Edition Lets You Read, Listen, Buy

2:49AM August 5, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Cross-platform digital news-stand Zinio just released an interactive version of Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, so you can hear all those classics you’ve heard of but never gotten around to listening to while you’re reading about them. More »

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Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For US$9,000

11:30AM May 10, 2008 | Wilson Rothman

If you’re rich enough to have a dedicated media server from the likes of Crestron, Elan, Escient, Kaleidescape, ReQuest or Apple—a strange one to mix in, I thought—you can go off and buy Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time already ripped and encoded on a NAS RAID drive, for the low price of US$9,000, thanks to a company called Terra-San. I can see several problems with this:

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